[Cialug] OT: Vi, by Microsoft

[Barry Von Ahsen]

Nathan Stien wrote:
> On 3/8/07, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com> wrote:
>> What vi would look like, if Microsoft had a hand in it...
>>
>> http://blogs.sun.com/marigan/entry/how_the_vi_editor_would
> 
> Yeah, that's one of the most glorious mockeries of the damn paperclip
> I've seen.  Does anybody remember when MS did a flash cartoon series
> about how everyone hates "Clippy"?  He was voiced by Gilbert Gottfried
> in order to fully ram home the point of his annoyingness.  It's fuzzy,
> but as I recall, there might have even been a musical number about how
> he was sad not to make it into the default settings in Office XP.  I
> kid you not.
> 
> MS no longer hosts the cartoons, to my knowledge, but a search reveals
> that some civic-minded fellow preserved at least some of them for
> posterity at youtube:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB03aRifPLU
> 

vi Clippy does exist:
http://vigor.sourceforge.net/

-barry